Klaus Schwab - World Economic Forum

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This will require responsive and responsible leadership with a deeper commitment to inclusive development and equitable growth, both nationally and globally. It will also require collaboration across multiple interconnected systems, countries, areas of expertise, and stakeholder groups with the aim of having a greater societal impact.feedback

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Klaus Schwab has been quoted 21 times in 11 different articles. On this page, you will find all of Klaus Schwab’s quotes organized by date and topic. Alongside each quote is a link back to the article where the quote was reported, so you can go back to the source for more context if you need it. Topics that Klaus Schwab speaks about are China and Asia, for example. Most recently, Klaus Schwab was quoted in the article Davos founder: World 'identity crisis' driven by globalization has led to Trump's election, Brexit saying, “Governments have to create a balance between being responsible and accountable to their own populations … but they also have to address global challenges.”.

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The key challenge is not so much globalization. It is actually, what I call the fourth industrial revolution. Because its technology which creates the major changes in our daily lives. It's technology that creates the fears. What we want to do is make the world much more aware. On the one hand of the opportunity of the new technology but on the other hand the risks and dangers we encounter.feedback

We are living in a time of a lot of turmoil. We have many question marks related to the future. But that is exactly why people … we have a record participation come here to listen to each other, to have a dialogue, and to make sense out of what is happening. And I hope they will respond and they have to respond.feedback

The problems we face technologically, economically,socially and politically are so tremendous, such that sustainable solutions require a systemic, holistic approach .... And particularly the collaboration of all global stakeholders, united in one mission - improving the state of the world.feedback

Without economic development, social progress is not possible and without social progress, economic development is not sustainable. Every simplified approach to deal with the global complex agenda is condemned to fail.feedback

We are at some kind of a turning point of history – we need new concepts, we do not have the solutions or the intellectual concepts for everything which we confront. We have to be modest and provide the young generation with the possibility even more to make a contribution.feedback

Countries will need to start thinking of human capital very differently – including how they integrate women into leadership roles. This shift in mindset and practice is not a goal for the future, it is an imperative today.feedback

Let's take again the emergence of China, the emergence of India, represented here as never before. Let's take the consequences of social media, how they impact even on politics. All those are issues and features of the new reality.feedback

I would argue, that many people -- with the fast change, which they cannot anymore digest and the complexity of the world – many people are going through an identity crisis. They ask themselves, what is the purpose of my life in such a world. What is the purpose if I'm a worker somewhere in mid-America and I have to be afraid of my workplace? Facts do not anymore count, fake news may become more important than reality. So how do we address those realities?feedback

So President Trump will have to find a definition of the American role that answers the concern of many parts of the world that America was giving up its indispensable role of leadership in many countries - and major contribution in others - and define what and where America can lead and where it must contribute and in that help in the creation of an international order.feedback

In the last 20-30 years globalization has been part of a lot of good things, particularly for the developing world, it has created hundreds of millions of jobs especially in Asia. So we should not condemn globalization. We should make it work better.feedback

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